RT Book, Section
T1 How to Detain a Tsunami: Impassable Boundaries against Ocean Chaos in Ancient and Modern Imaginaries.
A1 Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Manuel
K1 Maremotos - Cádiz (Golfo)
K1 Mediterráneo (Región) - Civilización
AB This chapter focuses on the symbolic keys of a very long-standing model of perception of thesea among the cultures of the Mediterranean, which includes a combination of events playedout on a cosmogonic stage: the deity’s domination over the sea as the incarnation of originalchaos, the differentiation between the places belonging to the land and to the sea, and theimposition of unpassable limits on the latter with the perpetual command that it should nevertransgress them. In the framework of this model, a phenomenon like that of a tsunami isunderstood as the sea’s unlawful transgression of the limits imposed on it and as a return tooriginal chaos. This conceptual model was employed by Christian authors to represent thetsunami occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean in AD 365 and to construct accounts, such asthe miracle of St Hilarion in Epidaurus (Croatia), of the miraculous detention of the watersthrough the establishing of an impassable boundary. The same narrative scheme is revealed intraditions emerging after the Lisbon earthquake and tsunami in 1755, for instance, the miracleof Our Lady of the Palm in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz. These examples allow for areflection on the role of religious rituals in preserving the memory of catastrophes such astsunamis from a long durée perspectiv
PB Liverpool University Press
YR 2022
FD 2022-12-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28461
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28461
LA eng
NO Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, M. (2023). "How to Detain a Tsunami: Impassable Boundaries against Ocean Chaos in Ancient and Modern Imaginaries", in Williams, H. and Clare, R. (eds) The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception, Liverpool University Press, 203-225.
NO Publicado el 01/12/2022 (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802077605)Política de acceso abierto tomada de: http://biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/registro_buscareditoriales.php?id=601
NO Proyecto de Investigación Terremotos y tsunamis en la península ibérica en época antigua: respuestas sociales en la larga duración (PGC2018-093752-B-I00 - MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026